The time has come in spring 2018! The popular dino game is released in the closed beta for iOS and Android phones. There you can also play the massive multiplayer survival game free-to-play! It was designed and developed by War Drum Studios (known for GTA, Auralux and Bully for mobile devices).

Just like on the PC and console versions, there will be a lot to discover on an island. More than 80 dinosaurs and prehistoric animals can be trained and tamed as usual, as well as the tribal mechanics, buildings and crafting will be there.

Up to 50 players can play simultaneously on one server or explore the world as usual in a single player mode. The graphics have probably been scaled down so that it can be played smoothly on the handheld devices.

278.0

New

Creative Mode building (an admin command which you can trigger on yourself/another player which removes weight restrictions, crafting requirements, and unlocks all the engrams. Allowing you to freely craft items to your hearts content. Must relog to disable the effect). Creative mode can be activated using the following commands: “Cheat GCM” to activate it on yourself, “Cheat GiveCreativeModeToTarget” to toggle for a player on the center of your screen, and “Cheat GCMP” to toggle for a player by their ID.

Server option to disable fog. (?DisableWeatherFog=False)

ARK will now scan your steam achievements and update your local profile accordingly to restore any lost skins/hairstyles.

You can now enable the retroactive turret hard limit by enabling this setting in your game.ini under ShooterGameMode:

bHardLimitTurretsInRange=True This will work on autoturrets, heavy turrets, tek turrets, plant turrets and is no longer map specific. The hard limit calculation is done on start-up, so if your turrets are ever over the limit, they will be randomly shut-off until you’re under the limit. In order to restore shut off turrets, you must pick up any which exceed the number, as well as shut-off turrets and replace them in order for them to work

Removed the ability to place Plant Y and Bear Traps while riding a dino

Reduced Titanosaur walk speed by 5% and run speed by 20%

Increased the Phoenix’s health, stamina and weight.

Made a respawning player not targettable by Wild AI

Add messages to tribe logs with information about uploading and downloading creatures

Option to hide learned engrams

Players can now directly go from Proning to Crouching position

All TEK structures now have an element cost, though in some cases may be in the form of shards

Tribe ownership in hardcode mode is now transferred to the next person in line when the owner of a hardcore tribe is killed

You can now scroll the chatbox using a game controller by holding down the BACK Action Wheel, and selecting the Scroll Chat Box option. This will highlight the chatbox. To exit this mode, just press back button on your controller (B/Circle)

Mini map overhaul:

Will receive a new ‘Me’ marker which is easier to identify

‘Me’ marker now tracks rotation

Increased number of point of interest map markers to 30

Changed font for map markers to avoid overlays

‘Me’ marker and ‘points of interest’ markers are now colourable

Tribe Log now displays when people have been kicked, promoted, demoted, claim, unclaim, upload and download a creature.

Players are automatically expelled from tribes when they die in hardcore

Reduced cloning costs by approximately 40% across the board.

Providing players with the option to flip their tribe log, so that they can either select to have the most recent messages at the top or bottom.

Fortitude now provides some resistance versus the effects of the Rex Roar, and this resistance carries onto player-ridden dinos too. Enough fortitude can prevent player-ridden dinos from being poopstunned.

Corrected bigfoot’s socket for Desert Goggle headgear

For creatures with targetted jumps, pressing jump again in midair will result in the tame falling straight down (to prevent erroneous cases where the dino may unintentionally bounce awkwardly)

Basilisks now damage foliage on movement to prevent them from getting stuck in trees, and the accuracy of their poision shot has been improved.

The Giga is no longer raged by fall damage

The Giga’s rage mechanic is now based on damage taken before reduction from external sources (saddles, yuty)

Reduced the respawn rate of Basilisk and lowered the Nearby Player check

Created a “Use Last PIN Code” so players can quickly access secured structures

Server option which makes the Silencer hide the name of the player who has killed you from the kill message and tribe log (enabled by default on Console, disabled on PC Official PvP servers) (?AllowHideDamageSourceFromLogs=true)